Lieberman makes a point to connect digitally with his audience at a time when we are seeking relief from isolation. Source: WM | whitehot magazine of contemporary art | Hope within Walking Distance: Adversity and the Sublime in Charlie Lieberman's Photography

Warmly invited to a day of talks and presentations about locative media and sound walking in the 21st century, relating as well to climate change, mobility, and the pandemic. Among the speakers, you find locative media and sound walk experts as Joshua Kopeček (Echoes), Ricardo Climent (SonicMaps/University of Manchester), Fred Adam (GPS Museum / CGeomap), Francesca Panetta (AudioAR, MIT), Halsey Burgund (Roundware / MIT), environmental artist Verónica Perales (University of Murcia), environmental scientist Rich Blundell (Oika), walking artist and curator Julie Poitras Santos (ICA at MECA), researchers as Michael Duggan (King's College), Didem Özkul (UCL), Sam Hind (University of Siegen), Giada Peterle (University of Padua) and Vermeire Geert Participation is free but places are limited. We are aware that other obligations and unfavorable time zones are limiting many of you to only a selection of the presentations, so all presentations will be available afterwards as separate video-recordings, accessible for all participants Source: Locative media, climate change and (im)mobility during the COVID19 pandemic Tickets, Fri 29 May 2020 at 09:00 | Eventbrite

Manchester is spearheading a new effort to create space for walking and cycling. Source: How coronavirus is driving a revolution in travel - BBC News

Jim Bachor has been filling up Chicago's potholes with beautifuld and durable mosaics for years. He has become known as the city's Pothole Artist. Source: Chicago's Pothole Artist Turns Road Hazards Into Works of Art

OPEN CALL: audio papers and audio walks are very much welcomed. http://www.themilena.com/made-of-walking Source: Made Of Walking - the Milena principle    

A blog piece about the sound walking project in the online magazine Archivoz. Your recordings of memories and stories are welcome till end of June and you are as well warmly invited to the webinar at the Urban Tree Festival this Saturday. Webinar: https://urbantreefestival.org/libraries-as-gardens Source: Libraries as gardens | Archivoz

Locative media, climate change and (im)mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic: exploring collaborative spatial narratives in the arts and education Source: Locative media, climate change and (im)mobility during the COVID19 pandemic Tickets, Fri 29 May 2020 at 09:00 | Eventbrite A free symposium-workshop for all interested in the relation between locative media and our planet in crisis, for arts and education. Among the speakers: Francesca Panetta (MIT, Boston), Halsey Burgund (Roundware - MIT, Boston), Rich Blundell (Oika, US), Julie Poitras Santos (ICA-MECA, Portland), Josh Kopecek (Echoes, UK),.... Coordinated by Mike Duggan (King's College, London), Fred Adam (GPS Museum, CGeomap) and Geert Vermeire (walk listen create, CGeomap)

Source: Libraries as gardens — Urban Tree Festival Invitation to live webinar about collective and collaborative digital mapping and sound walking as an ecological form of art. by Geert Vermeire and Fred Adam, CGeomap. Saturday, May 16th - 12 noon, at the Urban Tree Festival in London. Duration about 45 minutes. (Free) tickets can be booked via the site of the Urban Tree Festival https://urbantreefestival.org/libraries-as-gardens CGeomap is a digital platform and open-source software for Geo-Storytelling, allowing simultaneous group creation of spatial narratives and locative writing. The concept of CGeomap is based on collaborative online creation and is a tool of connection with the Earth in our time of global crises. https://cgeomap.eu/info/ You are invited to join!  

IN light of government advice, Thurrock100 had to postpone the T100 Walking Festival until 12-27 September this year. Source: Thurrock100 launch arts challenge ahead of walking festival in September - Your Thurrock

Un-Earthed: A festival of listening and environment Source: Call for works: Online sound art exhibition, Un-Earthed festival – CRiSAP

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Walk around the World, a 24-hour international online event on World Labyrinth Day, that will connect people virtually across time zones on the GoToMeeting platform. This will be a global labyrinth community celebration with presenters from New Zealand to Hawaii, as well as opportunities for participants to greet each other and share as time allows. Source: The Labyrinth Society: The Labyrinth Society: World Labyrinth Day

In 1988 Abramović and Ulay trekked from opposite ends of the wall to meet in the middle – but this Herculean act of love and performance art was doomed from the start Source: The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović's epic walk on the Great Wall of China | Travel | The Guardian

There are many problems and paradoxes to which walking is the solution. For instance: In our culture of overwork, burnout, and exhaustion, in which we're connected and distracted 24/7 from most things that are truly important in our lives, how do we tap into our creativity, our wisdom, our capacity for wonder, our well-being and our ability to connect with what we really value? Solvitur ambulando. Source: Hemingway, Thoreau, Jefferson and the Virtues of a Good Long Walk | HuffPost Life

Sometimes an ancient tip is just the trick for managing a postmodern existence. Source: This Latin phrase will change the way you manage problems — Quartz

You are invited to submit word-oject anti-signs for placement along inspirallondon Trail – for works transformed into small objects (up to 10 characters) you can recieve £25; for works transformed into medium objects you can recieve £35 (11 to 25 characters); for works transformed into large objects (26-35 characters) you can recieve £50-60. Word-Objects anti-signs should be short, pithy, and in spirit of dada, adopt attitudes of multi-lingual, de-centering, cross meaning messaging. Submission above 35 characters will only be considered on the rare occassion that they are so ridiculous and meaningfilled that they require hatcheting down and re-interpreting. The aim is to produce an average of one anti-sign per day during lockdown – at the current projection at least 84 word-object signs until the trail and life is re-opened. There are no terms apart from the themes outlined but you should be aware that this is an antidote exchange project. Source: Word-Object Exchange | Culture/Art DeCentreDer Space: in an Other Capital of Culture

Corona Diaries gathers personal stories during the time of COVID-19 and documents them as the crisis evolves. It’s a place for stories big and small, joyful or sad, one off contributions or daily audio blogs. Every story is welcome. The recordings are open source, available for anyone to use in their projects - journalists, radio producers, artists, creators of any kind. https://coronadiaries.io/

“Living, in the deepest sense, is something that nobody can do for us. At work you can substitute someone, but not when walking. That is the great criterion.” Frédéric Gros A short essay by Balam Ronan (Mexico)   Source: Walk to Listen / Listen to Walk – balam ronan

[embed]https://vimeo.com/134705829[/embed] Alternatives for sound walking during lockdown. Full articke on: https://journals.openedition.org/ambiances/657?lang=en